Family Law in Syria

Patriarchy, Pluralism and Personal Status Laws

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Esther van Eijk

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The current Syrian crisis has its roots in the sectarian nature of the country's multi-religious society. Since Ottoman times, the different religious communities have enjoyed the right to regulate and administer their own family relations. Matters of personal status including marriage, divorce, child custody and inheritance continue to be managed by a variety of religious laws and courts operating simultaneously within the legal system of the state. However, this complex system of competing jurisdictions has also affected inter-communal relations and has been used to deepen communal divides. Esther van Eijk discusses socio-legal practices in Syria by focusing on three courts: a shar'iyya, a Catholic court and a Greek-Orthodox court. While the plurality of Syrian family law is clear, she shows how - irrespective of religious affiliation - it is nevertheless characterised by the prevalence of shared cultural or patriarchal views and norms on marital relations, family and gender. Based on extensive fieldwork, Family Law in Syria offers a detailed analysis of a country that has in recent years been inaccessible to researchers.The book is a vital contribution to the growing literature on personal status laws in the Middle East and sheds light on the historical, socio-political and religious complexities and fault-lines that mark contemporary Syria.

Author Biography:

Esther van Eijk is a postdoctoral researcher in the Faculty of Law at Maastricht University and holds a PhD from Leiden University. Her work has appeared in the books Family Law in Islam: Divorce, Marriage and Women in the Muslim World and Sharia Incorporated: A Comparative Overview of the Legal Systems of Twelve Muslim Countries in Past and Present. She has also published in the journals Electronic Journal of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law and Erasmus Law Review. She is Board Member and Secretary of the Dutch Association for the Study of the Law of Islam and the Middle East.

Release date NZ

May 18th, 2016

Author

Esther van Eijk

Pages

312

Audience

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly

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138x216x30

ISBN-13

9781784533342

Product ID

22978108

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